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    The Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is a North American species of fish in the herring family, Alosidae. Atlantic menhaden are found in North Atlantic...
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    yellowfin menhaden and finescale menhaden. In addition, yellowfin menhaden tail rays are a bright yellow in contrast to those of the Atlantic menhaden. Recent...
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    morphology and DNA analyses suggest that the Gulf menhaden is the Gulf of Mexico complement to the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus). Both species support...
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    1.3 million tons in 2013. The most important species in the area, Gulf menhaden, reached a million tons in the mid-1980s but only half a million tons in...
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    is home to the fishing industry for Atlantic menhaden, a small oily fish found in great abundance in mid-Atlantic coastal waters. The Omega Protein corporation...
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    The genus Brevoortia are all species of menhaden, there are found mainly in western Atlantic and consist of the following species: Brevoortia aurea (Spix...
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    home to the Atlantic menhaden fishing industry. It is named for Captain Elijah W. Reed (1827-1888), who is credited with bringing the menhaden fishing industry...
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    populations. Atlantic tripletails are opportunistic eaters; they feed on a variety of foods, mostly small finfish such as gulf menhaden, Atlantic bumpers,...
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    Great auk (category Atlantic auks)
    that it used in hunting. Its favourite prey were fish, including Atlantic menhaden and capelin, and crustaceans. Although agile in the water, it was...
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    speeds and respiration rates of a filter-feeding planktivore, the Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (Pisces: Clupeidae)". Fishery Bulletin. 78 (4):...
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    7–5.9 in) long are taken in September off Long Island. Atlantic bonito eat mackerel, menhaden, alewives, silversides, sand lances, and other fishes, as...
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    filter feeders. For example, the Atlantic menhaden, a type of herring, lives on plankton caught in midwater. Adult menhaden can filter up to four gallons...
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    northwestern Atlantic is the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), with sharks of all ages off northwestern Florida eat almost nothing else. The menhaden are...
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    The Atlantic cod (pl.: cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling....
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    Temporal range: Late Jurassic–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota...
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    Chesapeake Bay (category Environment of the Mid-Atlantic states)
    crab species. Some of these include the Atlantic menhaden, striped bass, American eel, eastern oyster, Atlantic horseshoe crab, and the blue crab. Birds...
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    Cynoscion regalis (category Fish of the Atlantic Ocean)
    variety of species, including, small schooling fish like anchovies and Atlantic Menhaden, assorted crabs, shrimp, mollusks, and even large zooplankton. Weakfish...
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    salmon, menhaden, anchovy, sea bass, herring, mackerel, cod, whiting and flatfish, and occasionally shrimp, crabs, mollusks, and squid. Atlantic subspecies...
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    shrimp and squid. Striped anchovies (Engraulidae) and clupeoids such as menhaden, alewives and thread herring (Opisthonema), are particularly important...
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    Northumberland County, Virginia. Reedville has a long heritage in the Atlantic menhaden fishing industry, and the museum dedicates itself to preserving the...
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    herring like the alewife, shad, Atlantic herring, and Atlantic menhaden, They also would have consumed the Atlantic sturgeon and drum. In the West, Pacific...
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    small fishes, menhaden larvae, pteropods, annelids, tintinnids by larvae below 45 millimetres (1.8 in), Haplosphaera, Pseudocalanus. Atlantic herring can...
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    niloticus Wild 235,003 Longtail tuna Thunnus tonggol Wild 234,427 Atlantic menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus Wild 224,404 Giant tiger prawn Penaeus monodon...
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  • controversy. In December 2012, in the face of the depletion of Atlantic menhaden, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission imposed a limit on Omega's...
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    mollusks. Commonly consumed fish include menhaden, eels, silversides, wrasses, jacks, toadfish, and filefish. Atlantic sharpnose sharks are born ranging from...
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    of the herring family which is abundant off the Atlantic coast from New England southward. Menhaden was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc...
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    perch (Bairdiella chrysoura) Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus)-Also...
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    species include: American eel American lobster Atlantic croaker Atlantic herring Atlantic menhaden Atlantic sturgeon Black Drum Black sea bass Bluefish Coastal...
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    fishes change their feeding strategy throughout their lives; the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is an obligate filter feeder in early life stages...
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    List of fishes of Florida (category Fish of the Atlantic Ocean)
    invasive species in North America List of invasive species in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States Environmental issues in the United States Tilapia...
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